look at president obama's 2009 cairo speech. it was titled "a new beginning." where is the new beginning? >> no, no potentialness, no narcissism there. history began on january 20th, 2009. you know, the forces that exist, existed before he took office and they'll exist after he took office. i think the proof positive that the administration can't understand what is going on, is it continues to insist that the real problem here is the scurrilous movie trailer about the prophet mohammed. that is simply the manifestation of the hatred an extremism and backing away from film is not going to eliminate the hate and extremism. in fact, if anything, since it does show weakness, as i think governor romney correctly pointed out it will only encourage them to do more, the harder they push, the more we apologize and they'll push more. >> eric: talk about apologizing, here's a shocking analysis from the "new york times," this past week about the president's foreign policy: what makes egypt's uncertain course so vexing for the white house is that mr. obama, more than any oth